Read more.Microsoft's new operating system hits public beta early 2012.
Read more.Microsoft's new operating system hits public beta early 2012.
I'm really struggling to be excited by this release. I've almost immediately switched to new windows releases when they come out (even vista) but really put off by metro (it feels horrible with a mouse). Not sure I'll bother this time...
Yeah, metro is brilliant on their phone but until I get the tablet, it's not too appealing. Having said that, the threading improvements touted look great.
I haven't really been following in detail but surely you can fallback to standard windows layout like they've always done?
Yes. You can even have a Metro panel to the side of a normal Windows desktop.
I think this would work well on a large monitor, you could have some live tiles on one side keeping you up to date with some things, while you are working on the rest of the screen with normal Windows apps.
Still not sure what it's going to bring for me....the last few releases have all had something big we knew about before that made me want to have it on release day....the one thing I have heard about/seen was the new task manager......but as gorgeous as that was, I can't see myself upgrading for it![]()
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Why oh why, win7 is a not-too-bad OS, why go and spoil it?
Goes in cycles
Win 98 ok
Win Me poop
Win XP ok
Win Vista poop
Win 7 ok
Win 8 ?
I'm fairly indifferent towards Metro on the PC - I've used it and it feels okay, but for my line of work (coding), I can't see a Metro version of Visual Studio any time soon.
Having said that, I do understand Microsoft's dilemma with Metro and PCs. Windows is a solid operating system but PCs are incredibly old fashioned when you consider how many devices are sold nowadays that have no place for traditional draggable windows and pop up dialog boxes. At the same time, professional multimedia industries that use the likes of Photoshop and Visual Studio, for example, have no place for anything *other* than the aforementioned.
Tricky thing to balance, under a single unified operating system.
You are omitting information... what about the Windows OSes released before Win98? You also are not taking the information in context, Windows XP had as much or possibly more outrage than Vista did. So your analogy is useless.
As for the release schedule they more than likely have billions of reasons for it, each one of them being a dollar.
Windows 8 cant come soon enough for AMD to save the bulldozer architecture, i'm a little surprised there isn't a hot fix in the works for windows 7
Disappointed in you there 0id, that's the kind of thing I expect of 14 year old 1337ers, ho hum.
And so it begins anyhoo - people already seem to be making decisions about an operating system that the vast majority have only seen a pre-beta developer preview of, that is at least 6 months away from release. I had a quick tinker with the DP, but will judge the OS on it's merits (and not the version that came before it) and make a purchase decision at (or close to) release. And I'll be sure to file a few bugs along the way to help it develop, too.
To be honest I think I'm more interested in what changes Server 8 brings, and if Microsoft will finally make it "Server Core" by default.
I'm actually going to agree with 0iD - I actually quite liked XP (still have a VM running it for the odd Windows dev compatibility check), although the "need" to back off and reinstall every 18 months did drag a bit.Vista on the other hand, I hated and loathed with a passion. Wife's laptop was the only box in the house with it on, and I tried to get her to upgrade to Win7 as soon as possible. Vista - never heard anyone say anything nice about it.
Back to Win8 - I got the DP loaded on a spare laptop and given the lack of anything to do with it I thought it looked okay. So I'll be very interested in the public beta. Will I buy it? Probably not - Win7 does everything that I need, so I'll probably do the same as I did before and skip a generation.
Well now you did/do - I liked itWhat I didn't like was nvidia's ****ty drivers killing it for 1.5 years. Is Win7 better - absolutely - but Vista laid the foundation for many of the features people love in 7 and for most, it was absolutely fine on the desktop (laptops whole different matter). 7 was very much a cleanup of Vista - and mostly in terms of performance - but had it easy as the driver model pain was already taken by it's forerunner.
As for 8 - away from the focus on Metro - I think portability, speed improvements etc will make it worthwhile for me - there's certainly enough in there to make it interesting enough to warrant upgrading after 3 years. I'll reserve judgement till i've been using the beta in anger (as usual I will be using it full time as my work OS) as judging it on a dev alpha seems farcical given the raft of changes already shown in later builds.
i'm with you on the vista front i quite liked it. all the problems i had were driver related nvidia and creative labs in particular, Thats not microsofts fault really. And while i like windows 7 a lot more if were honest it builds on the vista platform honeing it and making it better.
so hopefully windows 8 will take all the good bits of 7 and improve on that
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